But above all, the French head of state is trying to draw up European initiatives to ensure that the Old Continent is not crushed by the new Washington-Moscow entente. First and foremost, the Franco-British plan drawn up with the host of Sunday’s meeting, Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Emmanuel Macron does not believe in a ceasefire signed between the Americans and Russians, convinced that Vladimir Putin will seek above all to humiliate Ukraine, notably by demilitarizing it. As an alternative, he and Starmer have put on the table a “truce in the air, on the seas and energy infrastructures” that would last a month. Advantage: “We know how to measure it. Today’s front line is the equivalent of the Paris-Budapest line. In the event of a ceasefire, it would be very difficult to check that the front was being respected,” explains the Chairman.
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The information I could find, e.g. on Wikipedia seems to confirm that only few PzH-2000 were lost, but a lot units are undergoing maintenance, as there is lots of wear on the loading mechanism and the lock, as the Ukrainians are “going the extra mile” and pushing the PzH-2000 to it’s limits in order to stay out of reach of the russians while operating. This indicates that they are using the EFRB-BB ammunition with 40 km maximum reach and the rocket extended V-LAP ammunition allowing 56 km reach. As I understood, these can not be used in M109 howitzers below the A5 variant. They are limited to ~24/30 km reach. Also the shoot and scoot ability of the modern howitzers is
alsoan advantage to the older M109 variants before A6 “Paladin”. (Ukraine got 18 M109A6 “Paladin” units from the US.) Therefore, the relative losses of M109 units are significantly higher than those of the modern howitzers (PzH-2000, AHS Krab, Zuzana 2, DITA, CAESAR, Archer, AS-90)https://www.merkur.de/politik/verschleiss-deutsche-panzerhaubitze-2000-waffenlieferungen-ersatzteile-ukraine-krieg-zr-93291864.html